Pay-per-view articles in scientific publications present a significant drag on progress and pose an ethical dilemma of the first order. Science (information an

Pay-per-view articles in scientific publications present a significant drag on progress and pose an ethical dilemma of the first order. Science (information and data ought to be free) and a market economy (I have something you want and will sell it to your for the highest price I can negotiate) are antithetical. See Robert Laughlin's The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind.